Go behind the scenes of Jim Steinman and Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell the Musical

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When a new musical based on classic rock songs comes to town, its tickets usually fly out off the door like a Bat Out of Hell.

So when composer and lyricist Jim Steinman decides to put the songs he wrote that were sung by Meat Loaf in a stage production it becomes a big talking point.

To see what to expect when the show opens, we go backstage to see the cast and crew in their final days of rehearsals of Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell the Musical.

In this video, the cast perform some of the songs from Meat Loaf’s classic 1977 album Bat Out of Hell.

These include All Revved Up with Nowhere to Go, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, the title track Bat Out of Hell and the previously unreleased song, What Part of My Body Hurts the Most.

Christina Bennington and Andrew Polec

Bat Out of Hell became one of the best-selling albums in history, selling over 50 million copies worldwide.

Sixteen years later, Steinman and Meat Loaf returned with Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, which contained the hit I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That).

For the stage musical, Steinman incorporates the songs from the three Bat Out of Hell albums into a romantic adventure about rebellious youth and passionate love, set against the backdrop of a post-cataclysmic city adrift from the mainland.

It follows Strat, the forever young leader of The Lost, who falls for Raven, the daughter of Falco, the tyrannical, ruler of Obsidian.

Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington

The set for the show is ambitious too. The detailed set, which was designed by Jon Bausor, whose previous work includes Bugsy Malone, took months to build.

It includes full-scale escalators, three levels and a number of motorbikes. There are also cameras mounted on props and the actors to beam different perspectives of the action onto big screens to create an immersive experience and bring the audience close to the action.

The show has its world premiere at the London Coliseum, opening on Tuesday 20 June.

But if you cannot wait until then it is being previewed at Manchester Opera House from February 17 to April 8.